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Critical food programmes in North Korea can’t wait for ‘diplomatic progress’, UN food agency warns

Oct 10, 2018, at 09:22 am

New York, Oct 10 (IBNS): North Korea’s humanitarian situation remains dire, with widespread chronic food insecurity and malnutrition, the United Nations emergency food relief agency has warned, urging greater and sustained funding for its aid operations there.

Truck carrying WFP food hit in Yemen's Hodeidah Governatorate

Aug 31, 2018, at 03:44 pm

New York, Aug 31 (IBNS): The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is gravely concerned about an incident on 29 August involving a truck under contract to WFP that came under shelling while delivering life-saving food assistance in the war-torn district of Al Tuhayta in Yemen’s southern Hodeidah governorate.

Preventive action could save billions of dollars in food assistance costs - UN agency

May 15, 2018, at 01:39 pm

New York, May 15 (IBNS): As chronic hunger increases and food crises intensify worldwide, preventative action and extra investment could results in billions of dollars of savings each year, a new United Nations report has found.

Mothers, children, lacking basic nutrition in North Korea: UN food aid chief

May 12, 2018, at 01:01 pm

New York, May 12 (IBNS): The head of the United Nations food relief agency said on Friday that many mothers and young children in North Korea are still relying on humanitarian assistance to meet their nutritional needs.

Drought and conflict leave millions more hungry in 2017 – UN-backed report

Mar 23, 2018, at 02:20 pm

New York, Mar 23 (JEN): Driven largely by climate disasters and conflict, levels of acute hunger surged in 2017, leaving some 124 million people across 51 countries facing hunger crises –11 million more than the previous year, according to a new United Nations report.

UN food relief agency and partners deliver much-needed aid to Syria’s east Ghouta

Mar 06, 2018, at 02:07 pm

New York, Mar 6 (JEN): A United Nations-Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) humanitarian convoy arrived in the besieged Syrian enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Monday bringing life-saving aid to thousands of desperate people, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has reported.

UN food relief agency working with Sri Lanka to end hunger and malnutrition

Feb 15, 2017, at 06:11 pm

New York, Feb 15 (Just Earth News): Sri Lanka is making efforts to achieve zero hunger and zero under-nutrition, having launched a national review of food security and nutrition with the United Nations emergency food relief agency.